Clouds along the Peace, heavenly.
1 Called to Visit BC's Peace River Country
From the Fort St John Lookout. Old Fort, the bridge at Taylor. |
I was
invited, and I felt I had to go. To cross the Rocky Mountains in the
north, to see the Peace River and visit Peace River country.
The
Peace River, 1900+ km long, flows east, from its Finlay River source
in the BC Rockies, crossing the Alberta border east of the town of
Pouce Coupe. East northeast across Alberta to the confluence with the
Athabasca River, into the Slave River, and north into the Northwest
Territories, to Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie River, the Arctic
Ocean. The Peace is an old river. It has carved a deep wide valley
through the alluvial plain, the eastern foothills of the Rocky
Mountains.
We
drove northeast of Prince George, from west to east through the Pine
Pass. To Dawson Creek.
We crossed the river at Taylor and stayed in Fort Saint John. We
visited on the Halfway River, a tributary. And headed back south,
re-crossing the Peace near Hudson's Hope. Twenty-four hours of
driving, 12 hours each way. We stopped in Quesnel one night there and
back. A journey of 2700 km, from Hope to Halfway, plus 100 to get me from and back to home in Chilliwack.
I was
called to see the majestic Peace River and its beautiful valley.
Before it is gone. Or at least before more parts of it are gone. I
felt called to witness.